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Chauvet Names Ford Sellers Senior Product
Development Manager
Chauvet has appointed Ford Sellers senior
product development manager for Chauvet and
its sister company for architectural lighting,
Iluminarc. Sellers brings more than 15 years
of hands-on experience in the lighting industry.
After studying lighting design at Syracuse
University, he began his career installing lighting
for the groundbreaking show EFX, starring
Michael Crawford, at the MGM Grand in
Las Vegas, Nevada. While in Las Vegas, Sellers
worked as a trade show electrician and then as
the assistant lighting director for the MGM Grand
Conference Center. From there, Sellers became
a master electrician for Cornell University’s
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance. For
nearly a decade he taught lighting technology,
the mechanics of light, and designed the lights
Ford Sellers, Chauvet’s new senior product development
manager
for several of the 11 productions and plays produced for the Schwartz Center for
the Performing Arts each season.
Nick Wyman Elected Actors’ Equity President
Actor and long time equity councillor Nick Wyman has been elected president
of Actors’ Equity Association. Eighteen members, representing Principals, Chorus
and Stage Managers, were also elected to serve three, four or five year terms on
the National Council, the Union’s governing body. More than 6,500 valid votes
were cast in the election. Wyman, a member since 1974, brings more than 20 years
experience as a councillor to the post. Among his committee work, he has served
on several Production Contract negotiating teams, House Affairs, National Public
Policy and is the Chair of the Alien Committee. Wyman’s stage credits include the
Broadway productions of The Phanton of the Opera (Firmin in the original production),
Les Misérables, Sly Fox and Grease. He has appeared Off Broadway, in regional
productions at such theatres as The Goodman, the Arena Stage and the Guthrie.
Joe Aldridge Takes Office as USITT
President
Joe Aldridge of Las Vegas, Nev., took
office as president of the United States
Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.
(USITT) on July 1. Aldridge has toured
Japan with Siegfried and Roy, helped
stage Oedipus at Colonus in Greece, taken
plays to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
and been artistic director for Shakespeare
Under the Stars in Wimberley, Texas. He
has also been with the University of
Nevada at Las Vegas, not continuously,
since the 1970s, serving first as technical
director and, most recently, helping
create and nurture the Entertainment Joe Aldridge took office as President of USITT on July 1.
Engineering and Design Program, a joint
effort of the colleges of Fine Arts and Engineering.
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